D.C. Circuit Rejects Industry Challenge Of EPA Vapor Intrusion NPL Listing

A federal appeals court has rejected a first-time industry challenge to EPA’s Superfund listing of a vapor intrusion site, dismissing arguments that the agency should have accounted for mitigation efforts in place at the site and applied industrial, rather than residential, exposure scenarios when scoring the site for the National Priorities List (NPL). The unanimous ruling , issued July 28 by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in Meritor, Inc. v. EPA , deals a...